Satellite News

Just another satellite weblog

Rocket Lab to launch ADRAS-J for Astroscale

Submit on Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 22:16

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. announced it has signed a dedicated launch contract with Astroscale Japan Inc. Scheduled for lift-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in 2023, the Electron rocket will launch the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) satellite, which has been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project (CRD2).

Related posts:
New star sensor to be flight-qualified aboard ISS-Reshetnev’s navigation satellite
SSL selected by Hughes to build high capacity Ka-band broadband satellite
Airbus DS, TAS prepare the successor to Pleiades
NewSpace Systems launches Africa’s first ESA standard clean room

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 at 10:16 pm and is filed under LAUNCHES. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.